For Your Consideration
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discussed in biography
- In Christopher Guest: Filmmaking career
…a folk music impresario; and For Your Consideration (2006) satirizes Hollywood’s Oscar season. In 2013 Guest wrote (with Piddock), directed, and executive produced the HBO series Family Tree, starring O’Dowd as a young man tracking down his genealogy. Guest collaborated with Piddock again on the Netflix production Mascots (2016), which…
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Gervais
- In Ricky Gervais
…roles in such films as For Your Consideration (2006) and Night at the Museum (2006). With Ghost Town (2008), he starred in his first leading role in a feature film, playing a man who emerges from a near-death experience with an ability to see ghosts. Gervais also wrote and directed…
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Levy
- In Eugene Levy: SCTV and mockumentaries
” For Your Consideration, another mockumentary, was released in 2006. While the films were largely improvised, Levy and Guest also served as writers.
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Lynch
- In Jane Lynch
…an entertainment television host in For Your Consideration (2006). Her performances in Guest’s films led to roles in other movies, notably Judd Apatow’s blockbuster comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Julie & Julia (2009), in which she played the sister of Meryl Streep’s Julia Child.
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O’Hara
- In Catherine O’Hara
In Guest’s For Your Consideration (2006) O’Hara played an aging actress who hopes to receive an Oscar for her performance in the fictional Home for Purim.
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“This Is Spinal Tap”
- In This Is Spinal Tap
…A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006).
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